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-in-differences research design compares cohorts of children in treatment localities before and after the Law's introduction to equivalent … creation of a better learning environment in elementary and middle school, with a greater sense of security and better …
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This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...
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This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child's effort and the … parents was provided de-tailed information about their child's academic progress. I frame the results in the context of a …
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benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality … children who attended such programmes no better off academically than those who did not. This paper studies the relationship …
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impacts on children's development in mathematics, language and executive functioning. Compared to business as usual, the nine …, suggesting that a structured curriculum can reduce inequality in early childhood learning environments. …
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Demand for personalized online tutoring in higher education is growing but there is little research on its effectiveness. We conducted an RCT offering remote peer tutoring in micro- and macroeconomics at a German university teaching online due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small...
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While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to … implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … gathering and provision of information to parents at scale. In a field experiment across 22 middle and high schools, we used …
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We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for … individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that …
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connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …
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, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …
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